Merry Christmas!

Brothers

Can you tell them apart?

Weekend To-Dos

1. Bake sugar Cookies
2. Write Christmas cards to our teachers at school
3. Decorate sugar cookies
4. Practice grasping :)


*And, yes, we made sugar cookies and ate store-bought pumpkin pie :)

Santa Baby

What We Do During a Blizzard

1. Wear Silly Reindeer Antlers?
2. "Camp" In Basement With Dad?
3. Underwear Caught on Rocking Horse?
4. Lots of Naps?

Then, you've got yourself a good ol' fashioned Mills' Family Blizzard Bonanza!

Santa Visits 2010

First, Jack saw Santa at the mall
and asked for "Thomas Trains"



Next, Santa came to visit our house and reminded
Jack to be a good little boy for 12 more days!



And, most recently, Jack sat on Santa's lap
at JT and Grandma's Christmas Party and
now he cannot stop talking about Santa ;)

Will's First Office Christmas Party

Holidays

Happy 3-1 to a wonderful wife and mommy. Love, The Boys

Jack's Nap

We are quickly learning how exhausting the holiday season can be for our family. Not because we travel, because we don't anymore. One of the many joys of moving back to Iowa. And, not because we make a lot of plans, because we shouldn't. Flu season and a 3 month old don't mix.

But, exhaustion from an almost 3-year old's excitement in visiting with all his grandparents, wrestling with his uncle, eating lots of yummy desserts (and popcorn galore!) and getting to stay up a little past his bedtime as a holiday treat. Needless to say, we had one tired toddler on our hands yesterday afternoon. He fought us HARD on taking a nap. We had to resort to closing the door and let him "work it out." I went back upstairs after the crying stopped to find every single light in his room on and this:

12 weeks

It's beginning to look a lot like....

...CHRISTMAS!



I just couldn't wait 4 more days to pull out the flannel Christmas bedding :)

William Arlin meet William Alan :)

VeggieTales LIVE

VeggieTales LIVE came to our church, First Federated, and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to take Jack to his first rock concert =) My friend, Andrea, and her precious boy, Henry, joined us for the adventure. Thank goodness for Andrea and her bag of goodies! Why the 20 minute intermission during a 90 minute kid show???

I bet you can't get the song out of your head now - "Broccoli, Celery....gotta be...VeggieTales!"

First Day of School for Will

We asked Jack if he went to visit his brother in the infant room and he replied, "yes, twice" Priceless...

Mona Jack